anyone else neglect cleaning room?

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11 Jan 2015, 7:25 am

I always suck at keeping my apartment clean, because I struggle to care about anything corporeal.



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11 Jan 2015, 8:07 am

Yes. At the moment my place is a disgusting mess. I haven't vacuumed my place for 5 years and empty packets/boxes of food etc, junk mail, plastic bags, tissue paper and so on are scattered everywhere. You can't walk without stepping on them. I have a reason for not being motivated to clean the place though.

When I keep my place clean, it is extremely neat and clean to the point where it makes other people uncomfortable. But when I lose the motivation to do so, it gets completely neglected.



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11 Jan 2015, 8:21 am

jk1 wrote:
Yes. At the moment my place is a disgusting mess. I haven't vacuumed my place for 5 years and empty packets/boxes of food etc, junk mail, plastic bags, tissue paper and so on are scattered everywhere. You can't walk without stepping on them. I have a reason for not being motivated to clean the place though.

When I keep my place clean, it is extremely neat and clean to the point where it makes other people uncomfortable. But when I lose the motivation to do so, it gets completely neglected.

That's a good sign in my opinion. People who have neat little lives really have no soul.



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11 Jan 2015, 10:10 am

As long as you keep the bathroom and kitchen clean, remove organic waste to the bin and be aware of fire hazards I'm all for living as you please. That's how I live. :D


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11 Jan 2015, 10:07 pm

Ach!! I'm a total PIG----my house (apartment) looks like a cyclone struck it! I hate that I'm this way!!













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11 Jan 2015, 10:30 pm

My apartment is very untidy. There's a few pieces of plastic here, a few pieces of Kleenex there, a few boxes. I also have a few plastic bags that need to be picked up.


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12 Jan 2015, 12:30 am

I think I have you all bested in the worst mess category. :oops: two words- "goat trails."



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12 Jan 2015, 12:34 am

I'll mix up this thread a bit by saying I'm completely the opposite. I'm meticulously tidy and everything in my room is neatly categorized and organized. Clutter makes me anxious.



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12 Jan 2015, 12:40 am

^^^^
you are very fortunate you have the neatness neurons. :thumleft:



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12 Jan 2015, 12:56 am

auntblabby wrote:
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you are very fortunate you have the neatness neurons. :thumleft:


Hmm...I think it has its ups and downs. Sometimes I can be a bit too preoccupied with keeping things orderly and organized, occasionally to a point where it can disrupt my life. It's definitely some mild to moderate form of OCD.



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12 Jan 2015, 1:01 am

^^^
let's just say there are plenty of worse things one could be afflicted with, than terminal neatness :)



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12 Jan 2015, 9:50 am

I neglect cleaning the whole house. I blame my late aunt for this. She said to me one day,"Why clean the house, it's only going to get dirty again. You should read books instead." I do neither.



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12 Jan 2015, 9:52 am

I'm not keen on cleaning, either--but it has to get done some time.

I tend to wait a bit too long.

If you don't clean, your body starts to itch from all the dust!



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12 Jan 2015, 1:09 pm

auntblabby wrote:
I think I have you all bested in the worst mess category. :oops: two words- "goat trails."


Oh, MY!! Your goat(s) poo-pooed in your HOUSE?!? Yeah, YOU win!! LOL



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12 Jan 2015, 2:11 pm

Skibz888 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
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you are very fortunate you have the neatness neurons. :thumleft:


Hmm...I think it has its ups and downs. Sometimes I can be a bit too preoccupied with keeping things orderly and organized, occasionally to a point where it can disrupt my life. It's definitely some mild to moderate form of OCD.
I was that way once but by attempting to change my ways, I've gone in the other direction ever so slightly.


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12 Jan 2015, 2:27 pm

Skibz888 wrote:
Hmm...I think it has its ups and downs. Sometimes I can be a bit too preoccupied with keeping things orderly and organized, occasionally to a point where it can disrupt my life. It's definitely some mild to moderate form of OCD.
Perhaps somewhat paradoxically I am rather neurotic and at times have been like I had OCD, probably am still. It has been worse in the past though. But despite probably being more neurotic than most people I have met this does not translate into my habits of cleaning my room.


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I'm not keen on cleaning, either--but it has to get done some time.

I tend to wait a bit too long.

If you don't clean, your body starts to itch from all the dust!

I do feel that I probably get affected in some way by the dust or if it's something else. I seem to feel a bit better when my room is clean.